Bill Clinton: Former US President and… Brony?

Rhodes Scholar and former President Bill Clinton was on an NPR quiz show recently and was asked trivia about My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. He did surprisingly well making us wonder… might he be a brony?

SAGAL: All right, we have invited you here to play a game we’re calling?

CARL KASELL, host:

Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy and Twilight Sparkle.

SAGAL: So you’re a former president, you’re a Rhodes scholar, you’re famously well informed. What could we be sure that an accomplished person like you would know nothing about? And then the answer came to us: the TV show “My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.”

(Soundbite of laughter)

SAGAL: Answer three questions, or answer two out of three questions about the wonderful world of “My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic” and you win our prize for one of our listeners, Carl’s voice on their home answering machine. Carl, who is President Clinton playing for?

KASELL: The President is playing for Dave Parks of Chico, California.

President CLINTON: Poor Dave.

SAGAL: Poor Dave, I know.

(Soundbite of laughter)

(Soundbite of applause)

SAGAL: So here we go. You ready to do this? One of the current My Little Ponys is Rarity. That is her name, Rarity. What is her particular enthusiasm? A: she loves her little line of toys called My Even Tinier Ponies.

(Soundbite of laughter)

SAGAL: B: giving other ponies makeovers. Or C: eating paste.

(Soundbite of laughter)

President CLINTON: Eating what?

SAGAL: Eating past, sir, Mr. President.

President CLINTON: P-A-S-T-E?

SAGAL: P-A-S-T-E, paste, sir.

President CLINTON: B.

SAGAL: Yes, giving other ponies makeovers. Yes, that is in fact Rarity’s…

(Soundbite of bell)

(Soundbite of applause)

SAGAL: Big enthusiasm. Very fashion conscious, our Rarity is. All right, when ponies in Equestria discover their true talents in life, they earn something. What? A tattoo on their flank, known as a cutie mark. B: a title, such as Fluttershy the Inventive. Or C: the right to mate.

(Soundbite of laughter)

President CLINTON: A.

SAGAL: A. You’re going to go for A, a tattoo known as the cutie mark? Oh, you’re right, sir.

(Soundbite of bell)

(Soundbite of laughter)

(Soundbite of applause)

Ms. JESSI KLEIN (Comedienne): I have to say I think it’s probably fair to say this is the highest stake situation President Clinton has ever been in.

SAGAL: I think so.

Ms. KLEIN: In his entire life.

SAGAL: And he’s doing so well.

Ms. KLEIN: He’s killing it.

SAGAL: That’s true.

(Soundbite of laughter)

SAGAL: All right, well let’s see if you can be perfect. The ponies’ most powerful enemy is which of these? A: Krastos the Glue Maker.

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Hillary got her very first pony in 1983 and has been hooked ever since! When she isn't obsessing about ponies, she can be found all over the internet as she writes for quite a few blogs. Hillary is also a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer as well as the author of the first and only price guide to She-Ra collectibles.